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timing channel

nounid 163660·updated Oct 4, 2026
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No definition is given in NIST SP 800-171r3. The term is attested in use at 1 citation in that document; a definition is pending curation.

MWE

Source

document
NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 - Protecting CUI in Nonfederal Systems
found in
proposed during MWE review from Jev verdict jev:9a404e19-31b3-452c-805b-7a09013dcbfa:e0898:870-897
element
e0898
proposed by
dorianc@moxywolf.com
discovery
ManualCuration
Preventing unauthorized and unintended information transfer via shared system resources stops information produced by the actions of prior users or roles (or actions of processes acting on behalf of prior users or roles) from being available to current users or roles (or current processes acting on behalf of current users or roles) that obtain access to shared system resources after those resources have been released back to the system. Information in shared system resources also applies to encrypted representations of information. In other contexts, the control of information in shared system resources is referred to as object reuse and residual information protection. Information in shared system resources does not address information remanence, which refers to the residual representation of data that has been nominally deleted, covert channels (including storage and timing channels) in which shared system resources are manipulated to violate information flow restrictions, or components within systems for which there are only single users or roles.the sentence this term was read in

Proposed during multiword review of this document in the CKI mapping queue.

Attested in

NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 - Protecting CUI in Nonfederal Systems1 citation · 1 confirmed by a reviewer · observed 2026-10-20 under anchor/0.9/36554/2026-10-20/set-r11
03.13.04 ¶ 2

Classifications

Entity Type

Unknown—authoritativecki_proposal_default_pending_classifier

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
timing channels
possessive
timing channel's
pluralpossessive
timing channels'

Framework definitions

NIST SP 800-171r31 senseview framework →
§1 · attested_usage_reviewer_confirmed
No definition is given in NIST SP 800-171r3. The term is attested in use at 1 citation in that document; a definition is pending curation.
Increment 2: attested in NIST SP 800-171r3 without a glossary definition.

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Incoming relationships

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